Sandra Laugier
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- September 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780226470542
- eISBN:
- 9780226037554
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226037554.001.0001
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Philosophy of Language
Focused on clarity and logical argument, analytic philosophy has dominated the discipline in the United States, Australia, and Britain over the past one hundred years, and it is often seen as a ...
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Focused on clarity and logical argument, analytic philosophy has dominated the discipline in the United States, Australia, and Britain over the past one hundred years, and it is often seen as a unified, coherent, and inevitable advancement. This book questions this assumption, rethinking the very grounds that drove analytic philosophy to develop and uncovering its inherent tensions and confusions. Drawing on J. L. Austin and the later works of Ludwig Wittgenstein, it argues for the solution provided by ordinary language philosophy—a philosophy that trusts and utilizes the everyday use of language and the clarity of meaning it provides—and in doing so contributes to the philosophy of language and twentieth-and twenty-first-century philosophy as a whole.Less
Focused on clarity and logical argument, analytic philosophy has dominated the discipline in the United States, Australia, and Britain over the past one hundred years, and it is often seen as a unified, coherent, and inevitable advancement. This book questions this assumption, rethinking the very grounds that drove analytic philosophy to develop and uncovering its inherent tensions and confusions. Drawing on J. L. Austin and the later works of Ludwig Wittgenstein, it argues for the solution provided by ordinary language philosophy—a philosophy that trusts and utilizes the everyday use of language and the clarity of meaning it provides—and in doing so contributes to the philosophy of language and twentieth-and twenty-first-century philosophy as a whole.
George A. Kennedy
- Published in print:
- 1984
- Published Online:
- July 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780807841204
- eISBN:
- 9781469616261
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/northcarolina/9780807841204.003.0008
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, Archaeology: Classical
This Conclusion presents some final thoughts. The Conclusion indicates that this book's detailed discussion on redaction criticism, historical and literary criticism, and other approaches hopes to ...
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This Conclusion presents some final thoughts. The Conclusion indicates that this book's detailed discussion on redaction criticism, historical and literary criticism, and other approaches hopes to have provided supplementary information for the interpretation presented here to complement scholarly criticism in the twentieth century.Less
This Conclusion presents some final thoughts. The Conclusion indicates that this book's detailed discussion on redaction criticism, historical and literary criticism, and other approaches hopes to have provided supplementary information for the interpretation presented here to complement scholarly criticism in the twentieth century.
Jerome Kagan
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- May 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780262036528
- eISBN:
- 9780262341349
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- DOI:
- 10.7551/mitpress/9780262036528.003.0004
- Subject:
- Psychology, Cognitive Psychology
This chapter examines the relations between patterns of causes and outcomes. The popular way to phrase Niels Bohr's principle that the validity of every conclusion depends on its source of evidence ...
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This chapter examines the relations between patterns of causes and outcomes. The popular way to phrase Niels Bohr's principle that the validity of every conclusion depends on its source of evidence is to write that scientists assign a probability to the validity of each statement in accord with the evidence cited to support it. Statements that refer to exactly the same observation can have more than one validity if they are based on different evidence. It is useful to distinguish among the validity of a statement about nature that is based on certain observations, the truth of a conclusion that is based on the coherence of a logical or mathematical argument, and the rightness of a moral proposition based on a feeling.Less
This chapter examines the relations between patterns of causes and outcomes. The popular way to phrase Niels Bohr's principle that the validity of every conclusion depends on its source of evidence is to write that scientists assign a probability to the validity of each statement in accord with the evidence cited to support it. Statements that refer to exactly the same observation can have more than one validity if they are based on different evidence. It is useful to distinguish among the validity of a statement about nature that is based on certain observations, the truth of a conclusion that is based on the coherence of a logical or mathematical argument, and the rightness of a moral proposition based on a feeling.
